Microsoft Research Podcast

Ideas: Quantum computing redefined with Chetan Nayak

Microsoft announced the creation of the first topoconductor and first QPU architecture with a topological core. Dr. Chetan Nayak, a technical ...

3 days ago

Ideas: Building AI for population-scale systems with Akshay Nambi

In this episode, guest host Chris Stetkiewicz talks with Microsoft Principal Researcher Akshay Nambi about his focus on developing AI-driven t...

11 days ago

Ideas: Building AI for population-scale systems with Akshay Nambi

In this episode, guest host Chris Stetkiewicz talks with Microsoft Principal Researcher Akshay Nambi about his focus on developing AI-driven t...

11 days ago

Ideas: Bug hunting with Shan Lu

Struggles with programming languages helped research manager Shan Lu find her calling as a bug hunter. She discusses one bug that really haunt...

1 month ago

Ideas: AI for materials discovery with Tian Xie and Ziheng Lu

How do you generate and test materials that don’t exist yet? Researchers Tian Xie and Ziheng Lu share the story behind MatterGen and MatterSim...

1 month ago

Ideas: AI and democracy with Madeleine Daepp and Robert Osazuwa Ness

As the “biggest election year in history” comes to an end, researchers Madeleine Daepp and Robert Osazuwa Ness and Democracy Forward GM Ginny ...

2 months ago

NeurIPS 2024: The co-evolution of AI and systems with Lidong Zhou

Just after his NeurIPS 2024 keynote on the co-evolution of systems and AI, Microsoft CVP Lidong Zhou joins the podcast to discuss how rapidly ...

2 months ago

Abstracts: NeurIPS 2024 with Jindong Wang and Steven Euijong Whang

Researcher Jindong Wang and Associate Professor Steven Euijong Whang explore the NeurIPS 2024 work ERBench. ERBench leverages relational datab...

2 months ago

NeurIPS 2024: AI for Science with Chris Bishop

In this special edition of the podcast, Technical Fellow and Microsoft Research AI for Science Director Chris Bishop joins guest host Eliza St...

2 months ago

Abstracts: NeurIPS 2024 with Dylan Foster

Can existing algorithms designed for simple reinforcement learning problems be used to solve more complex RL problems? Researcher Dylan Foster...

2 months ago